[R] French Curve

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "dream" == dream home <dreamhouse at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:27:08 -0800 writes:

    dream> Dear R experts, Did someone implemented French Curve
    dream> yet?  Or can anyone point me some papers that I can
    dream> follow to implement it?

Are you talking about "splines" ?

I vaguely remember having read that in the distant past, splines
were sometimes called "French curves".


There's lots of splines functionality in the basic 'stats'
package, in the recommended 'mgcv' package and even more in
quite a few other packages.


    dream> thanks in advance for your help.

You're welcome,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich